Studying human agency in regional development

M Sotarauta, M Grillitsch - Regional Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The regional development studies community increasingly focuses on the significance of
agency when investigating why some regions or cities develop better or worse than others …

Places as brands: Charting the value of place-based intangibles

C Castaldi, S Mendonça - Regional Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
What happens when actors and sectors incorporate references to specific territories in their
development efforts? Throughout history, producers have capitalised individually and …

Change agency in social innovation: an analysis of activities in social innovation processes

S Wirth, P Tschumi, H Mayer… - Regional Studies …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We examine the role of change agency in social innovations. Agency in social innovations
can create new resources and capacities for transformative change in a region. To date …

Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation

H Dinmore, A Beer, J Irving, M Sotarauta - Regional Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses debates on the role of agency in shaping the economic future of
regions. Scholarship on agency departs from the earlier focus of evolutionary economic …

Közösségi munkavégzési terek és kreatív gazdaság egy periférikus nagyvárosban= Coworking spaces and the creative economy in a peripheral city

D Bálint, R Horeczki, G Lux - Tér és Társadalom, 2024 - real.mtak.hu
A városi terek átalakulása a kreatív gazdaság értékteremtő szerepének felértékelődéséhez
vezetett, amely többek között a kreatív munkavégzés új formáiban jelent meg. Az elmúlt …

[HTML][HTML] Linking industrial culture and human agency in three (post) industrial towns: Collective and individual agency shaping development paths

D Bole, M Goluža, J Kozina - Geoforum, 2024 - Elsevier
The aim of this article is to better understand the relationship between industrial culture and
human agency and how it influences development outcomes. The study is set in the …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, agency and regional development: Emergence and new path creation in the Cardiff city region

R Huggins, M Munday, P Thompson, C Xu - Local Economy, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper addresses the process of entrepreneurial ecosystem emergence in regions and
the mechanisms through which new industrial paths are created. It focuses on the context of …

Understanding the contemporary history of urban economic change: The case of entrepreneurial innovation

R Huggins, P Thompson - Growth and Change, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the opening decades of the twenty‐first century certain cities around the world emerged
as hubs of entrepreneurial innovation. This paper explores this urban economic change …

Municipal heat provision experiences and expectations in Germany

T Krikser, MH Ehlers, A Profeta - Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2024 - Springer
Background Compared to other sectors, the building sector is seriously lagging in efforts to
mitigate climate change. In particular, heat provision needs to move to low-carbon options at …

The transformative potential of inward investment on industrial cluster development: the case of the semiconductor industry in Wales

M Munday, R Huggins, W Cai, N Kapitsinis… - European Planning …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the transformative potential of inward investment on cluster
development. It undertakes this through the lens of the evolving semiconductor cluster in …